The Middle Ages
A thousand years of European history, from 450 to 1450, mark this period.
What is the Middle Ages?
A traveling group of poet composers from southern France.
Who are the troubadours?
This medieval polyphonic vocal music could be heard in the church.
What is organum?
Rebirth of human creativity.
What is the Renaissance?
One melody line played or sung by all at the same time.
What is monophonic texture?
A series of wars undertaken by European Christians, between 1096 and 1291, to recover the Jerusalem from the Muslims.
What are the Crusades?
Medieval music made up of Gregorian chant and one or more additional vocal lines.
What is organum?
This medieval dance was accompanied by instruments.
What is an estampie?
This painter, sculptor, architect, and scientist was a fine composer as well.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
Like the lute song or much of the popular music today, this texture has a featured melody with supporting vocal and or instrumental harmony.
What is homophonic texture?
During this time, a sharp division existed between three social classes.
What is nobility, peasantry, and clergy?
What is the mass ordinary?
This polyphonic choral composition may be heard in the Catholic church at any given time of the church year.
What is the mass ordinary?
The dominant intellectual music of the day that was focused on human life and its achievements.
What is humanism?
Much of the vocal music of the Renaissance follows this textural model in which multiple melodies of equal importance occur at the same time.
What is polyphony?
This important document was signed in 1215.
What is the Magna Carta?
This polyphonic choral work is set to Latin but is not based upon the ordinary of the mass.
What is a motet?
This type of secular music may have as many as 6 parts, with one person singing per part.
What is a madrigal?
The name given to choral music that does not have instrumental accompaniment.
What is a cappella?
This epidemic wiped out 1/4 of the population around the mid 1300s.
What is the Bubonic Plague?
This is a musical depiction of the text.
What is word painting?
This song has a homophonic texture, with the soloist's melody supported by the lute.
What is a lute song?
Martin Luther is credited for starting this branch of Christianity.
What is protestantism?